ALT Colour head and shoulders photo of Liz MacWhirter

ALT Black and white photo of Jane McKie

ALT Colour head and shoulders photo of Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones

ALT Colour head and shoulders photo of Helen Bond

ALT io. Origins are not the only fight, although they lead too often straight back into the great expanse of conflict. Resistance is febrile. What choice does the desert have but patience? It does not possess the property of mercy. Resistance is fateful. The moral arc has not yet verified its course, its curve, its carve. Resistance is faithful. The fox in the twilit park blurs into something unsubstantiated. Resistance is faithful. Most of the universe is, even the rocks. Go forth and bear fruit, fruit that will outlast. Resistance is faithful. Go forth and gather the crumbs from beneath the table so as to form a brick. Resistance is faithful. There is no reason for this to mean a curse, babes.

ALT Chaffinch just here roughness under my feet that watching shadow light on that edge light on these moving edges up down back again in mid-air land long lines moving light on these curved edges up, snatch down hook at this long pink curl up onto this dappling edge declare my rights now, take off into this empty space

ALT Rogue Female 'It's me or you. I have prepared with tireless discipline, and feats of the bladder unusual in women for your approach. Right now a catapult with a fountain-pen bolt is trained on your eye which, I see from your fear, is a distinctive green. This nib, filed fine, will enter your brain. If you haven't been hunting me, you won't be hurt by my words. Move slowly now... much depends on your answer'. Note: 'Rogue Female' draws on Geoffrey Household's 1939 cult thriller Rogue Male, in which a failed assassin goes to ground to confront his pursuer.